Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-06-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Rev. Sam Jones is supporting four
young men at college in Georgia.
= The Journal Of Education says:
"Never allow child to use short
pencil, lead or slate. 1t spoils the
handwriting"
The receipts of the American Board
are nearly $4,000 less for the first six
months of its current fiscal year than
for the same time the year preceding.
United Presbyterian.
The average salary of school teach
ers in st. Louis is $633.70. Only twen-
ty-six receive $1,000. Of 1.101 teach
ers, 1.004 receive less than 5000 year.
-Penman's Art Journal.
One of the oldest preachers in the
country is Elder Philip S. Fales, of the
old Christian or Campbellite Church
in Nashville, Tenn. He has preached
there since its dedication sixty-one
years ago, and his age is eighty-nine.
Miss Susan Wood, B. &c., has OBJ
tanned the teachers diploma in the art.
theory and history of education, at
London University. Only eight men
and two women have obtained this
diploma since the examination was in
stituted. Golden Rule
"A prominent Connecticut pastor
finds it good thing to ask the brethren
occasionally to hand in a topic for the
prayer meeting. In this way he learns
what the members of his flock are
thinking about, and some of the freshest
and most helpful themes have thereby
come to light. Congregationalist.
The Society for the Relief of Poor
Widows, in New York, is said to be the
oldest charitable society in the United
States that is controlled entirely by
ladies. 1t was founded by Isabella
Graham eighty nine years ago, and sup
plies clothing, provisions and other
necessities. Indianapolis Journal
The Comgregat,onalist announces
that the American Home Missionary
Society has closed its year without
debt. For time it was feared that a
disheartening deficiency would remain
when the books closed, but the special
efforts of friends and the activity of the
officers of the Board have brought il
out into large and wealthy place.
| "A Boston school-ma' am the other
day explained to her pupils that the
word vicissitude meant change, and
then asked boy to give her sentence
in which the word was used with that
meaning. The boy promptly offered
the following: "Me mother sent me
to the grocery store this morning tc
get the vicissitude of q five-dollal
bill"
during the reign of Queen Victoris
there have been erected $500 buildings
for worship in the Church of England
as against 5000 by all other religious
communities put together. Sever
new dioceses have been founded a
home and sixty-two in the colonies
Within the last half of her reign, fS1,
600, 900 has been voluntarily subscribed
for church purposes and f22, 100000 il
elementary education in voluntar,
schools. Public Opinion.
AT a recent meeting of the Ameri
can Missionary Association at Brook
Ign Mr.. Price, colored minister, mad
a most effective and amusing speech
Among the anecdotes which convulse'
the audience was one concerning tn
text: HE that gathereth not with m
} scattereth abroad" which an illiterat
colored preacher, scarcely able to read
| rendered as follows: HE that gather
eth not with me scrdtcheth a board!'
From this remarkable statement h
gravely proceeded to draw an excellen
moral lesson of the scratchings mad
| unon character nv means of sin